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Re: [SLUG] Script needed
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:34:05PM +1000, Anthony Rumble wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:
>
> > I am looking for some kind script wizard to help me out.
> > I have a file of:
> > username:password
> >
> > I want to be able to regularly generate a file from this of just the usernames,
> > that is strip off the ':password'. Could some kind person pointme at the Perl
> > (or other commands) to do this?
>
> This is a job for.. <tada> AWK.
>
> cat thefile.txt | awk -F: '{print $1}'
Bah that forks two processes and a pipe how wasteful :)
awk -F: '{print $1}' thefile.txt
>
> Done.. easy..
>
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